This is a story from an acquaintance of mine. I have no reason to doubt her.
She is from Western Kazakhstan, but it so happened that she fell in love with a guy from the South and married him. They now have a daughter. They live with her husband’s family in Astana.
Here’s what her life looks like now: every …
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When you carry one stone to one place every day, no one notices.
The daily price of big wins. Then the day comes when you find yourself on top of a mountain of your own stones.
Everyone is jealous of you and wants to get in your place.
But few people want to wear one stone every day.
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Today, many well-off people have helpers at home: housekeepers, nannies, drivers, security guards, etc.
Different relationships develop between employers and employees.
It happens that the newly-made rich think of themselves as feudal lords (bays) and treat the workers as serfs: arrogant, disdainful, consider them second-class people.
Others treat the assistants almost like family members: respectful, friendly, warm.
The same two …
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Recently, an entrepreneur (let’s call him Rasul) approached me for investment.
He worked for many years in a large company, thoroughly studied the business of this profile from the inside, learned how to manage people, and only then decided to open his own company.
I liked the idea of it, and the business plan turned out to be quite well-developed.…
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Some people have a consumerist mindset and attitude towards money. They dream of getting rich quickly and buying a huge villa, and an expensive car, and lounging on the beach all day sipping cocktails. These are the extent of their dreams. This is their happiness.
Then there are people with a creative mindset. Money for them is not an end …
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I recently had to fire an employee. It’s just that our approaches to work did not coincide. It happens.
So after the dismissal, she wrote me a long message, where she expressed everything that she thinks about me.
It turned out that I am too dry in my work, I do not pay attention to relations with employees, I often …
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I recently went to a general practitioner with complaints of neck and back pain. She glanced at me briefly, then lowered her head to her computer and continued typing.
– “Everything is clear, – she told, – You have low back pain. You have too tight neck and spine muscles that are squeezed and create pain.”
I was surprised:- “How …
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Recently, a friend told me that he accidentally woke up in the middle of the night and saw some thieves trying to steal jewelry at the entrance of the shop on the ground floor of their apartment building.
Most people, seeing this, would yawn and go back to sleep. But my friend stuck his head out of the window and …
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Why does the entourage of an authoritarian leader eventually turn into flatterers and sycophants? Why does this process develop in a geometric progression?
It’s very simple.
In an authoritarian society, the head of state is the sole source of power. Not the people, but him alone. He distributes all goods: high government positions, financial flows in national companies, and natural …
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Ali was born into a poor family. He remembered since childhood, as his parents lived in a rented apartments and barely making ends meet. He also remembered how his father and mother had waited in fear for the rent to be paid every first day of the month, how they had hated the landlord, called him a blood-sucker and a …
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